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Stop back regularly to see new and interesting posts from your friends at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, in Duluth, Minnesota:

Railroad Ghost Stories
October 28, 2025

by Theresa Beck, Education Intern   What’s your favorite ghost story? Did you perhaps grow up hearing about ghosts in graveyards, or maybe a haunted hotel? Rail workers had their […]

Online Store Now Available
July 24, 2025

Want to take a piece of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum home with you? Checkout our online store with some limited items exclusive to the railroad museum. Including our guidebook, […]

Steam Pressure Rising
May 3, 2025

Like lighting a firebox to boil some water and build pressure in the steam dome for a long trip on a locomotive… Duluth is building pressure to its summer season. […]

Behind the Scenes: The Model Train Building Peek into secret spaces
March 20, 2025

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  • May 4, 2026

    by Anita Zager, LSRM volunteer From the Collection of Wayne Olsen, railroad correspondence file at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum Archives. It’s been a fascinating project this winter to catalog another collection from Wayne Olson, one of the founding members of LSRM. This file happened to be a collection of over 150 items, mostly railroad correspondence from the 1880s. Most are handwritten letters regarding possible deals, requests for passes, rights of way, etc but then I came across this extremely fragile, difficult to read piece of paper. My initial evaluation is that it’s too far gone, too hard to read but then I slowed down to decipher it character by character and experienced goosebumps. Great Northern Railway Company, Train Order No. 105, Havre, May 31, 1916. To Conductors and Engineers, at Glasgow Station. Funeral of Mr. James J. Hill set for one o’clock, 1:00pm Wednesday, May 31 our time at that hour all trains in transit and all employees will stop for 5 mins.

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